Indiana Daily Week 27 / Friday

Who's a Hoosier?

There are many explanations for why people from Indiana are called Hoosiers.  

When visitors knocked on pioneers' doors in the early days of Indiana settlement, the settler would often yell "Who's yere?" "Who's yere" then became "Hoosiers."

Indiana rivermen were so good at winning brawls, or "hushing" their opponents, that they became known as "hushers." "Husher" then turned into "Hoosier."

A man named Hoosier who worked on the Louisville and Portland Canal liked to hire worker from Indiana  His workers were known as "Hoosier's men," which then was shortened to "Hoosiers."